Practice question · Match the pairs
Match each concrete role or effect to the structure responsible.
- Keeps your heart beating and lungs breathing automatically
- Filters incoming stimuli and decides what wakes you up
- Makes a practiced motion like signing your name smooth and automatic
- Relays signals between cerebrum and cerebellum and helps regulate sleep
- Medulla
- Pons
- Reticular formation
- Cerebellum
Hints
- Work from the function back to the structure that provides it.
- Vital automatic functions are the medulla; smooth practiced movement is the cerebellum; arousal filtering is the reticular formation.
Show the answer
- Keeps your heart beating and lungs breathing automatically → Medulla
- Filters incoming stimuli and decides what wakes you up → Reticular formation
- Makes a practiced motion like signing your name smooth and automatic → Cerebellum
- Relays signals between cerebrum and cerebellum and helps regulate sleep → Pons
Why
Automatic vital control is the medulla, arousal-filtering is the reticular formation, smooth skilled movement is the cerebellum, and the cerebrum-cerebellum relay is the pons. Each role identifies one structure of the old brain.
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